Pandaemonium

This is the opening to my essay on the forgotten relationship between opera and the working class, published in the Observer on 12 October 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on the need to distinguish between criticism of liberalism and the politics of illiberalism, published in the Observer on 5 October 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on Mark Mazower’s argument about how the meaning of antisemitism transformed in the postwar decades , published in the Observer on 28 September 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally, published in the Observer on 21 September 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on the murder of Charlie Kirk and the responses to it, published in the Observer on 14 September 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on “Operation Raise the Colours”, published in the Observer on 7 September 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on the consequences of a policy of mass deportations, published in the Observer on 31 August 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on the debate about Lucy Connolly, published in the Observer on 24 August 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on what old debates about Jewish refugees tell us about the immigration debate today, published in the Observer on 17 August 2025.

This is the opening to my essay on immigration and the debate about “broken Britain”, published in the Observer on 10 August 2025.